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Quick Tip: You Need to Check out LESS.js
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Quick Tip: You Need to Check out LESS.js

on Jun 24th 2010 with 152 comments

You might be familiar with such services as LESS and Sass. They allow for far more flexibility when creating your stylesheets, including the use of variables, operators, mix-ins, even nested selectors. However, because LESS was originally built with Ruby, a lot of PHP developers, despite the fact that there are PHP versions available, never used it.

That’s all going to change now that LESS is being rewritten in JavaScript, is about forty times faster than the Ruby version, and can be used by any of us!

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This Will Change the Way you Code your CSS
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This Will Change the Way you Code your CSS: New Premium Tutorial

on Jan 13th 2010 with 81 comments

Last Friday, we learned how to utilize a tool called Zen-Coding to rapidly speed up our development time when creating mark-up. In today’s Plus video tutorial, we’re going to take another huge leap forward, specifically with CSS, where I’ll show you how to utilize a different tool, called “Scaffold,” created by Anthony Short.

This will allow you to use variables, functions (mix-ins), for statements, and to even create grids on the fly with ease! I promise you that, if you’re mildly familiar with PHP, this will drastically change – and improve – the way you code your CSS! Become a Premium member to watch!

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